Oak Woods Cemetery

From a marker some distance east of the monument:

The Confederate dead here buried in concentric trenches were all
private soldiers.

The monument to their memory is of Georgia granite, stands forty
feet from the ground to the top of statue and was erected in July 1893
with funds mainly subscribed by liberal citizens of
Chicago and camps of the United Confederate Veterans.

The bronze panels of the pedestal die represent:
On the East face - THE CALL TO ARMS;
On the West face - A VETERAN'S RETURN HOME;
And On the South face - A SOLDIER'S DEATH DREAM;

The bronze statue surmounting the battlemented cap of the
column is a realistic representation of a Confederate infantry
soldier after the surrender. The face expresses sorrow for the thousands of
prison dead interred beneath.

The cannon, shot and shell ornamenting this Government lot
in which both Union and Confederate dead are buried were
purchased by the War Department under authority of an
Act of Congress approved January 25th 1893.

THE
CALL
TO
ARMS

The Names of the Confederate Dead

Around the base of the monument are bronze
tablets with the name and unit of every Confederate
buried here. I am often asked for those names, by
descendants, or by members of historical societies
in the South, yet there was no easy way to look
them up.

To that end, I have photographed each of the
tablets and placed the original high-resolution
photos on this site. They are about 2.5MB in
size, but show most of the names very clearly.